N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Part of many an amusement park
7 “Curious …”
15 B.Y.U. athlete
16 Title for Judge Judy
17 Tweetstorm, e.g.
18 With finesse 19 ___ of Solomon (part of the Apocrypha) 20 Playbill section, informally
22 Norman Vincent ___, best-selling author of “The Power of Positive Thinking”
23 Hybrid Starbucks product
26 Course number
27 Actress Gadot 28 “If you have to ___ …”
29 Chuckleheads
31 Behaved creepily, in a way
33 Auto industry pioneer Michelin
34 News ___
35 It’s not good if it’s purple
37 Dict., gaz. and others 41 Volume not bought at a mall
43 Perspective
44 Tony with an Emmy
47 Substance whose primary use earned its discoverer the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology — but is now banned 49 Heat on the street
50 Kind of rock
51 French protesters beginning in 2018
54 Caterpillar, for one
56 Like koalas and pandas
57 Wood strip
58 Major second, e.g.
60 Fashion designer Pucci
62 Al Bundy portrayer on “Married … With Children”
63 Kitsch, e.g.
64 Birds with showy rear plumage
65 Many early settlers of the U.S. frontier
DOWN
1 Natural disaster, legally
2 Doping hazard
3 Magic bullets
4 Breathless
5 #1 ___ (mug inscription)
6 Darkness personified 7 Teen drama set in SoCal 8 Symbols meant to ward off evil
9 Artist who created “chance collages”
10 Target demographic of many social programs
11 Cross
12 Recorded, in a way
13 Word with store or sign
14 Laundromat equipment 21 “Ugh!”
24 Digs
25 Part of a network
30 European capital
32 Scraped (out)
33 Copacetic
35 Trolley car feature
36 Hear “here!” here 38 Picnic dish
39 What a fork in the road might lead to?
40 What are still attempts to score?
42 Where Gap and Google are headquartered
43 4x4, e.g.
44 “Phew!” elicitor
45 Spock’s mother
46 Big name in virus fighting
47 Equivalent of “x”
48 Nerds
52 Puts to sleep
53 Slur over
55 Part of a volcano
59 Edward of the Edwardian Era
61 Big mouth